Investigating the Challenges and Strategies of Teacher Morality Policy for Higher Education Sustainability in China: Perspective of Stakeholder

Abstract

This study was designed to explore the challenges and strategies for the sustainable development of teacher morality policies in Chinese higher education. Based on the new era of a decade of the operation of teacher morality policies in Chinese universities, from the perspective of stakeholders, this study used a qualitative research method to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with 28 university teachers. The results found that the faculty group had a more profound knowledge and understanding of teacher morality policies and had positive attitudes and bright expectations for future development and enhancement. Teacher morality policy faces current challenges in four aspects: institutional regulation, evaluation system, education management, and policy subjects, which require the participation of multiple parties and joint planning. Taking the promotion of teachers’ sustainable development as the fulcrum, we should improve the system construction, optimize the supporting policies, coordinate the management mechanism, and stimulate the vitality of the main body. In addition, the limitations of the study are given in the last.